NON-METAL INDUSTRIAL MINERALS NANOTECHNOLOGY FEATURE
March 1st, 2006
BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney
NON-metallic minerals, long considered the poor relations in the extended family of industrial minerals, are suddenly popular again.
They have found favour once more because of their molecular structures and their usefulness in the rapidly advancing world of nanotechnology.
Nanotechnology can be described as the thorough and cost-effective control of the structure of matter, and several industrial minerals are currently being used in this expanding field of science.
According to a Sydney-based minerals expert, Murray Lines, of ...
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